5 Rules for SEO Conference Live Tweeting

Conferences serve many functions, two of which are networking and gaining knowledge. I’ve only been to two conferences, so I am by no means an expert, but here’s one thing that annoys me:

When someone attending a conference tweets crap.

If you are live-tweeting an event, you need to be offering up SPECIFIC tips and tricks coming from the speakers, for the edification and collective knowledge of the community. SEO is a tight community, so I would even say it is your duty to be helpful to others by sharing the knowledge you are receiving!

5. Retweet others at the conference and admit your mistakes when you screw up.

A few more reasons to live-tweet helpful tips

If you need them, here are some more reasons to live-tweet helpful bits from conferences:

1. New followers. I started interacting with a ton of UK and Europe SEOs because of my live tweets from Distilled’s #linklove in London back in March.
2. Links to your site. You’re building rapport and helping others out. I’ve gotten SEOmoz, Distilled, and many other links because of my live tweeting, and I wasn’t even looking for them!
3. If you are tweeting live, you can go back through and read your tweets like notes! This is how I wrote a lot of my London #linklove recap.

In the spirit of providing helpful tips, here is a good example I have seen that you maybe should try to imitate:

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Hi I'm John Doherty, the founder of Credo and author of this blog. I am an entrepreneur and growth marketer based in Denver Colorado (though often traveling the world), where I live with my wife and our very large black labrador Butterbean.